African Government

Government-backed Tech Funding Opportunities In South Africa

Blog

11th June 2018

Compared to a lot of African governments, South Africa isn’t doing too bad as far as government-backed funding for tech businesses is concerned.

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How Ekiti, one of Nigeria’s smallest states, is planning a ‘knowledge economy’ to rival Lagos

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Alexander O. Onukwue

14th July 2020

Susan Adesoji got fed up and set out for Lagos without telling her mum. After graduating from Ekiti State University (EKSU) in 2019 with a degree in Computer Science, the best ‘tech’ job she found was at a bootstrapping shop that built WordPress sites. It paid ₦20,000 ($52), a fraction of a dollar above the […]

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As one of the companies that changed perceptions of Africa’s capacity for a digital economy, Andela is frequently in the spotlight. There’s an argument about how it has hit its peak for excitement and innovation, owing to the internal changes of the past year. In a revealing report by a US journalist late last week, […]

Coronavirus Weekly Update: Big fintech, small adoption

Coronavirus Weekly

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Tizeti reinstates CEO, Kendall Ananyi, raising more questions about its conclusive investigation

ecosystem

Kay Ugwuede

10th July 2020

About a month ago, a Twitter thread struck a #MeToo fire that failed to catch on within the Lagos tech ecosystem. But it burned still. Ex-MEST Entrepreneur-in-Training, Kelechi Udoagwu had accused CEO of internet company Tizeti, Kendall Ananyi, of flashing his privates during a meeting where he was supposed to be mentoring the young tech […]

Digital Nomads: Nairobi to Lagos, the city where technology fails to meet up to expectations

Digital Nomads

Olumuyiwa Olowogboyega

10th July 2020

In 2019, Cindy, a Kenyan national moved to Nigeria. She shares her tech experience of the city of Lagos and her surprise at how the city is behind on technology.

Factsheet: How an African fintech sandbox works and how to access it

Factsheet

Alexander O. Onukwue

10th July 2020

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The BackEnd: How a four-person team built Sendcash for Bitcoin-to-naira transfers

The BackEnd

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9th July 2020

The BackEnd is a dive into the product development process in African tech. We take you into the mind of those who conceived, designed and built the product; highlighting product uniqueness, user behaviour assumptions and challenges during the product cycle. — It changes value at an unsettling pace and threatens the existence of sovereign monetary […]

How MAX is scaling its mobility solutions despite Lagos Okada ban

long reads, News, startups

Abubakar Idris

9th July 2020

MAX is doubling down on growing its services across five Nigerian cities and said it has witnessed “amazing growth” since the start of the year.